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Dispatches from the Highlands
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Cannatown Lifestyle
Photographer Captures the Color of O -White
Man Scrapes 630lb ResinWad From His Ol' Sherlock A local man has bro- ken the record for resin scraped from a glass pipe. Bernie O. Holterman of Pun Heights lumbered up to the nuggetry weigh station in lower Canna- town yesterday for an of- cial weigh-in and photo op. He told reporters that, as he sat toking on his dirty Sherlock pipe, he decided to clear it with a little poker to hit better, and next thing he knew, he was pulling pound upon pound from the handheld glass. “It just kept comin’ and comin’,” he told a sizeable crowd at the ceremony, “and I just kept a’scrapin’.” e previous record for scraped-resin weighed in nearly 40 years ago, when one Justin Lund- berg hauled in a 602lb gunk from his dual chamber bubbler. At the time, there was a much larger market for resin- smakers, and the chunk was sold in pieces to nearby derelicts known as ‘Resiners.’ "Were I a younger man I would’ve kept this wad for myself,” he said, then announced he would do- nate the nd to science. He isn’t sure what will come next, but suggest- ed he may see what he can get out of some old spoons in the work shed.
Assistants hang an o -white sheet for Bethany Johnson to capture on camera.
Bethany Johnson has a knack for pasty, vanilla nothingness of non-color. So apt, that the Can- natown Museum of Very High Art will feature a collection of her work beginning next Friday. “ is o -white just…strikes you,” said Willy Filkerson, avid collector and editor of Uninter- esting Art Magazine. “It’s star- tling, it’s emotional, it’s passion- less, it’s hateful, it’s cathartic.” e work, mostly photos of walls, sheets, and paper, explore the very essence of what it means to be a human. Her portraits have been featured everywhere from Tunisia to Berlin, gather- ing international acclaim along the way. Critics have hailed it as everything from disturbing and delirious, to downright devious and psychologically-manipula- tive. Yet, the artist seems to take everything in stride. “I try to pinpoint the moment on camera, when rainbow, and o -white intersect, but just slightly on the o -white side,”
Johnson wrote in her latest pub- lished work, A New Level of Dull . A growing following of enthu- siasts have adopted the move- ment, and crowds to her shows are notably swelling in number. “ ere’s just something about the colors she captures,” says CMVHA director Carmen Si- mon, “It’s just so devoid of life, that it has absolute purpose, like dark matter. Or NPR.” Johnson rst started in the art world as a purveyor of beige, putting together nearly two full photo collections of primed drywall and men’s khaki pants. But a series of traumatic events forced her to take residence in an upstate apartment where she fell in love, then betrayed, by the color of her newly painted ceil- ing. “I sought to expose the very hues of drudgery surrounding us all,” she later explained. No matter the emotional angle, collectors are hooked on her art. “It just goes so well with my fur- niture,” remarked Filkerson.
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